Today in History!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Post by n11pilot » Fri Dec 07, 2018 1:04 pm

43 BC - Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and politician is assassinated in Formiae. This is essentially what you get for arguing against tyranny and in favor of restoring a republic.

1431 - In Paris, Henry VI of England was crowned King of France.

1787 - Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. constitution becoming the first of the United States.

1796 - John Adams was elected to be the second president of the United States.

1836 - Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United States.

1909 - Inventor Leo Baekeland patents the first thermo-setting plastic, Bakelite, sparking the birth of the plastics industry. Bakelite pistol grips proved to be inconsistent in performance.

1926 - The gas operated refrigerator was patented by The Electrolux Servel Corporation.

1941 - In an event that best can best be described as an act of suicide by Imperial Japan, Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was attacked by Japanese warplanes and small submarines. The attack resulted in the U.S. entering into World War II. The unannounced attack started at 0748 local time and resulted in the deaths of 2,403 Americans with a huge loss of aircraft and ships. The attack galvanized the people of the US and proved the error of pissing off every American about the same thing at the same time.

1972 - Apollo 17 was launched at Cape Canaveral. It was the last U.S. moon mission.

1987 - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev set foot on American soil for the first time. He had come to the U.S. for a Washington summit with U.S. President Reagan.

1995 - A probe sent from the Galileo spacecraft entered into Jupiter's atmosphere. The probe sent back data to the mothership before it was presumably destroyed.

1998 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of President Clinton over 1996 campaign financing. Cue Captain Renault.

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Re: Today in History!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by Cousi » Fri Dec 07, 2018 3:27 pm

n11pilot wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 1:04 pm
1941 - In an event that best can best be described as an act of suicide by Imperial Japan, Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was attacked by Japanese warplanes and small submarines. The attack resulted in the U.S. entering into World War II. The unannounced attack started at 0748 local time and resulted in the deaths of 2,403 Americans with a huge loss of aircraft and ships. The attack galvanized the people of the US and proved the error of pissing off every American about the same thing at the same time.
My maternal grandfather served on the Gudgeon and they were pulling into Pearl when the strike hit. They received a radio call to stay away then everything went silent. They pulled in that afternoon. His wife sat at home hearing about the strike on the radio knowing he was there. Three days later he could finally call her to say he was alive and unhurt.

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Post by n11pilot » Sat Dec 08, 2018 1:14 pm

Cousi wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 3:27 pm
My maternal grandfather served on the Gudgeon and they were pulling into Pearl when the strike hit. They received a radio call to stay away then everything went silent. They pulled in that afternoon. His wife sat at home hearing about the strike on the radio knowing he was there. Three days later he could finally call her to say he was alive and unhurt.
That is a great family story and a good bit of history. Thank you for posting it, Cousi. Your Grandfather's story and the story of all of those who served on that day need to be remembered.

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1776 - George Washington's retreating army in the American Revolution crossed the Delaware River from New Jersey to Pennsylvania.

1863 - Abraham Lincoln issues his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of the South.

1941 - The United States entered World War II when it declared war against Japan. The act came one day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Britain and Canada also declared war on Japan.

1949 - The Chinese Nationalist government moved from the Chinese mainland to Formosa due to Communists pressure.

1952 - On the show "I Love Lucy," a pregnancy was acknowledged in a TV show for the first time.

1980 - Zimbabwe’s manpower minister, Edgar Tekere, was found guilty in the killing of a white farmer. He was freed under a law that protected ministers acting to suppress terrorism.

1987 - U.S. President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a treaty agreeing to destroy their nations' arsenals of intermediate-range nuclear missiles.

1989 - Communist leaders in Czechoslovakia offered to surrender their control over the government and accept a minority role in a coalition Cabinet.

1991 - Russia, Belorussian and Ukraine declared the Soviet national government to be dead. They forged a new alliance to be known as the Commonwealth of Independent States. The act was denounced by Russian President Gorbachev as unconstitutional.

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536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire. This empire was only a shadow of what it was.

1212 - Frederick II (later also Holy Roman Emperor) crowned King of Germany in Mainz.

1625 - The Treaty of the Hague was signed by England and the Netherlands. The agreement was to subsidize Christian IV of Denmark in his campaign in Germany.

1803 - The 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. With the amendment Electors were directed to vote for a President and for a Vice-President rather than for two choices for President.

1854 - Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade," was published in England.

1879 - Thomas Edison organized the Edison Ore Milling Company.

1914 - The Edison Phonograph Works was destroyed by fire.

1917 - Turkish troops surrendered Jerusalem to British troops led by Viscount Allenby.

1940 - During World War II, British troops opened their first major offensive in North Africa.

1941 - China declared war on Japan, Germany and Italy.

1960 - Sperry Rand Corporation unveiled a new computer known as "Univac 1107."

1990 - Lech Walesa won Poland's first direct presidential election in the country's history.

1993 - Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavor completed repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope.

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1520 - Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict. The papacy demanded that he recant or face excommunication. Luther refused and was formally expelled from the church in January 1521. An incendiary move on Luther's part. 8-)

1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.

1799 - Metric system adopted in France, first country to do so.

1817 - Mississippi was admitted to the Union as the 20th American state.

1845 - British civil engineer Robert Thompson patented the first pneumatic tires.

1898 - A treaty was signed in Paris that officially ended the Spanish-American War. Also, Cuba became independent of Spain.

1901 - First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy. Unfortunately the Nobel committee has really lowered the bar in the past decade or so.

1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War. See, there was a time when one actually had to do something to be considered for the Nobel prize.

1936 - Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

1941 - Japan invaded the Philippines.

1941 - The Royal Naval battleships Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk by Japanese aircraft in the Battle of Malaya. These two warships were capable of slugging it out with any surface threat that existed at the time but fell victim to the folly of the theory that a well armored ship could operate without sufficient air cover.

1953 - Hugh Hefner published the first "Playboy" magazine with an investment of $7,600. Much like the Nobel committee the publishers of this magazine have really lowered the bar lately.

1964 - In Oslo, Norway, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the youngest person to receive the award.

1994 - Advertising executive Thomas Mosser of North Caldwell, NJ, was killed by a mail bomb that was blamed on the Unabomber.

1998 - Six astronauts opened the doors to the new international space station 250 miles above the Earth's surface.

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1282 - Llywelyn (Llewelyn ap Gruffydd) was killed in Cilmeri, central Wales.

1719 - The first recorded sighting of the aurora borealis took place in New England.

1769 - Edward Beran of London patented Venetian blinds. Really? I would have thought that it was some guy in Venice who had never had a dog or a cat, but there you go.

1792 -In France's King Louis XVI's ongoing trial, he went before the Convention, which had replaced the National Assembly, to face charges of treason. He was convicted and condemned and was sent to the guillotine the following January.

1816 - Indiana was admitted to the Union as the 19th American state.

1844 - Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic. Apparently the laughter continued until the bill was presented.

1872 - Republican Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback became America's first black governor when he took office as acting governor of Louisiana.

1894 - The world's first motor show opened in Paris with nine exhibitors.

1928 - In Buenos Aires, police thwarted an attempt on the life of President-elect Herbert Hoover.

1937 - The Fascist Council in Rome, withdrew Italy from the League of Nations.

1946 - The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established by the U.N. General Assembly. The fund provides relief to children in countries devastated by war.

1961 - The first direct American military support for South Vietnam occurred when a U.S. aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters arrived in Saigon.

1994 - Thousands of Russian troops, armored columns and jets entered Chechnya. The move by Moscow was an effort to restore control the breakaway republic.

1997 - Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams became the first political ally of the IRA to meet a British leader in 76 years. He conferred with Prime Minister Tony Blair in London.

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627 - Battle at Nineveh: Byzantine Emperor Heraclius beats Sassanid forces during Byzantine-Sassanid War.

1787 - Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1791 - The Bank of the United States, also known as the First Bank, opened for business in Philadelphia, PA.

1792 - In Vienna, 22-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven received one of his first lessons in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn.

1800 - Washington, DC, was established as the capital of the United States.

1870 - Republican Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina became the first black lawmaker to be sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives.

1896 - Guglielmo Marconi gave the first public demonstration of radio at Toynbee Hall, London.

1900 - Charles M. Schwab formed the United States Steel Corporation.

1901 - Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland, Canada. This bit of history combined with the bit from 1896 should answer the question as to why this inventor is simply called "Marconi" in textbooks.

1915 - The first all-metal aircraft, the German Junkers J1, made its first flight. This bird was way ahead of its time.

1937 - Japanese aircraft sank the U.S. gunboat "Panay" on China's Yangtze River. Japan apologized for the attack, and paid $2.2 million in reparations. It should be remembered that the Imperial Japanese command knew of the presence of the USS Panay in the Yangtze near Nanking when it gave the order for Japanese Army and Navy aircraft to attack all shipping in the area. The fact that the Panay belonged to a neutral country was so obvious due in part to several large US flags painted on its top and sides that the Imperial Japanese Navy asked for clarification of orders before it began its attack. In the diplomatic aftermath of the incident the Imperial Japanese government maintained that the attack was an "Accident" and the result of "Misidentification".

1946 - A United Nations committee voted to accept a six-block tract of Manhattan real estate to be the site of the UN's headquarters. The land was offered as a gift by John D. Rockefeller Jr.

1951 - The U.S. Navy Department announced that the world's first nuclear powered submarine would become the sixth ship to bear the name Nautilus.

1985 - 248 American soldiers and eight crew members were killed when an Arrow Air charter crashed in Gander, Newfoundland after takeoff.

1997 - Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the international terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal," went on trial in Paris on charges of killing two French investigators and a Lebanese national. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

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Post by AeroDillo MkII » Thu Dec 13, 2018 1:33 am

n11pilot wrote:
Wed Dec 12, 2018 12:45 pm

1937 - Japanese aircraft sank the U.S. gunboat "Panay" on China's Yangtze River. Japan apologized for the attack, and paid $2.2 million in reparations. It should be remembered that the Imperial Japanese command knew of the presence of the USS Panay in the Yangtze near Nanking when it gave the order for Japanese Army and Navy aircraft to attack all shipping in the area. The fact that the Panay belonged to a neutral country was so obvious due in part to several large US flags painted on its top and sides that the Imperial Japanese Navy asked for clarification of orders before it began its attack. In the diplomatic aftermath of the incident the Imperial Japanese government maintained that the attack was an "Accident" and the result of "Misidentification".
Not being especially versed in either incident, one marvels at the similarities to the 1967 USS Liberty incident.

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Post by n11pilot » Thu Dec 13, 2018 12:39 pm

AeroDillo MkII wrote:
Thu Dec 13, 2018 1:33 am

Not being especially versed in either incident, one marvels at the similarities to the 1967 USS Liberty incident.

Yes! I was thinking along similar lines as I wrote that. In both cases the US accepted the respective nation's apologies but not the explanation. Irritatingly, in both cases no one was held directly responsible and no punishment was forthcoming.

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